Mike Levin: “I voted for the budget resolution. Trouble with this spending resolution is it violates the budget agreement, purely and…”

“I voted for the budget resolution. Trouble with this spending resolution is it violates the budget agreement, purely and simply. It does so on legal immigrants. It draws an irrational and inhumane line, contrary to what they agreed to. It also goes beyond the budget agreement, and it withdraws from people moving from welfare to work the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act. All they put back is a minimum wage standard, but there is no Federal protection to be sure that that is paid, and they do not provide against sexual harassment and employment discrimination. Mr. Speaker, second class citizenship is not the answer for people moving from welfare to work. We ask the Committee on Rules to grant us amendments to cure these, they turned us down. We should turn down this budget resolution.”